Author Buzz | Jason Latnar | Group Activity https://authorbuzz.co.uk/members/jasonlatnar/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Jason Latnar is a member. Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:26:51 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 2aec56bafbe0b3a574dc2ba110a988d7 Jane Smith joined the group General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19409/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:20:49 +0000 0 0c977ed75dff1fb89f976e12f88e4801 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Mistakes to avoid with your personal website in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/tutorials/mistakes-to-avoid-with-your-personal-website/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:13:45 +0000 Mistakes to avoid with your personal website I’ve been browsing a massive list of blogs and personal websites, and I have noticed a pattern in the websites I just gave up on. This is my nerdy […]

]]> fd2c48fc53ebea490b80b6a0b1467b3e Blog: The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy, Brigitte Knightley from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/11/The_Exquisite_Torment_of_Loving_Your_Enemy__Brigitte_Knightley.html Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:02:00 +0000 2026 romantic fantasy, second of a pair. Now that Osric Mordaunt,
assassin, and Aurienne Fairhrim, healer, have worked out that they
kind of like each other… what w […]

]]> 0 b1acebb1923a6354ac8dde09d6d22cda Jason Latnar wrote a new blog post One day you wake up to discover you are a frog. in the group Writing prompts and inspirations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/one-day-you-wake-up-to-discover-you-are-a-frog/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:00:00 +0000 2313195ce8d34bee3b46d3b0b21bfabe Matthew Brown started the topic How much bloodthirstiness is too much in a good story? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/aspiring-authors/forum/topic/how-much-bloodthirstiness-is-too-much-in-a-good-story/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:30:02 +0000 I’m writing a fantasy story. Due to the nature of the situation, there’s a fair old amount of bloodshed. Mostly justified.

Readers, how much is too much for you?

]]> 0faa6d82109e9fb11407d108d8391e72 Blog: Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/10/consider-phlebas-by-iain-m-banks.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:01:26 +0000 Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land,” IV

I don […]

]]> 1 49de0c50f3efb6394df2a01fdd63892a Blog: The Seagull, Ann Cleeves from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/The_Seagull__Ann_Cleeves.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:02:00 +0000 2017 contemporary police mystery, eighth in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
series. A corrupt policeman, now in prison, offers a solution to a
decades-old disappearance, if […]

]]> 0 1a4e7243ed433aa9ada631cad5acd831 Blog: What Great Novels Understand About a Well-Cut Suit from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/arts-and-culture/essays/what-great-novels-understand-about-a-well-cut-suit/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:33:20 +0000 Paid for by an advertising partner.
Novelists rarely spend a sentence on clothing unless it tells the reader something. A frayed cuff can signal a fall from […]

]]> 0 23d1a0576bb639dfa11d3485ca0e60e5 Acorn Boi replied to the topic Anime suggestions? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/anime-suggestions/#post-5370 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:16:48 +0000 Have you seen:

  • Ascendance of a Bookworm
  • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

I love them all

]]> fdebfd491c8ffff101605143d9055ce2 Blog: I’d tell you the joke about the time traveller, but you didn’t like it. from Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes https://punning.isbrill.com/dad-jokes/id-tell-you-the-joke-about-the-time-traveller-but-you-didnt-like-it/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:35:24 +0000 2 3b1f94d79553b0d2929a7698803146af Blog: The Last Bloody Straw, J D Kirk from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/The_Last_Bloody_Straw__J_D_Kirk.html Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:01:00 +0000 2020 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, fifth in the Jack
Logan series. Logan and Neish are sent to the island of Canna,
population 47. Well, 46 now.

]]> 0 116bb532eea3924855c77c0196f719db Burty Burtman started the topic Anime suggestions? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/anime-suggestions/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:47:08 +0000 Does anyone here watch anime?

What hidden gems can you recommend? (sub or dub)

]]> 128fe1a7e429e0ef59e874a2539cbc8f Blog: Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/Shroud__Adrian_Tchaikovsky.html Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 2025 science fiction. The corporate plundering mission meets an
enigma: a gas giant’s moon, with obscuring toxic atmosphere and so much
radio noise that they can’t […]

]]> 0 a97fce045a4046b9776dbaaaf82d66d0 Blog: The Shield Ring, Rosemary Sutcliff from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/The_Shield_Ring__Rosemary_Sutcliff.html Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:02:00 +0000 1956 historical fiction for young people. Frytha and Bjorn are
descendants of Vikings and part of a community of the same, resisting
the new kings’ rule in newly […]

]]> 0 dfb627c3593f79847c49db17c3602d35 Blog: R.E.M. from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/fiction/r-e-m-marian-dumitrascu/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Robert Self dreams that three workmen have let themselves into his basement flat and begun, piece by piece, to clear it.
The post R.E.M. appeared first on Litro Magazine.

]]> 0 28ccb17e493656d0c61c6bc1d2adb3c6 Charles Maxwell edited the blog post Just once, you'd like to live past 16 without being sacrificed to appease some random god. in the group Writing prompts and inspirations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/just-once-youd-like-to-live-past-16-without-being-sacrificed-to-appease-some-random-god/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:39:26 +0100 8d655fb4a71c410c56fa2ac274126448 Acorn Boi joined the group Thanet Creative: Writers https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19311/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:28:13 +0100 0 1947ef68e7ce6f47f11a273a1b6190d3 Blog: Coca-Cola from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/flashfriday/coca-cola/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:49:07 +0100 An eight-year-old girl drinks the Coca-Cola her mother has forbidden her to touch. The next day, she makes a decision that changes her standing among the […]

]]> 0 ead9956b506a27eecc3af5008894be02 Blog: What Feasts At Night, T Kingfisher from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/What_Feasts_At_Night__T_Kingfisher.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2022 horror novella. Alex Easton has returned to what’s left of the
ancestral home, a hunting lodge in Gallacia. The caretaker has died,
but nobody quite wants to say how…

]]> 0 2c3d073fa13ea72a6fcf5da6e79f4a3a Matthew Brown edited the blog post Sekhmet calling in the group Writing prompts and inspirations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/sekhmet-calling/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:59:08 +0100 Sekhmet callingToday you received a phone call from Sekhmet (the Egyptian god of war and plagues). All the chaos going on in the world has woken him up. Would you […]

]]> fdf111e90a47b40f6264a7946dc75a19 Toni McHadden started the topic Wuthering Heights in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/wuthering-heights/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:51:27 +0100 My sister gave me a beautiful hardback copy of Wuthering Heights. I’ve always meant to read it. I’ll let you know how I get on.

]]> 4f6be826eb36c68768848ce7a6804f4e Christian Writer joined the group General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19303/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:44:26 +0100 0 a6f0daadd52dcd77d5b116b69cc64c2f Blog: Darkness on the Edge of Heyrod from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/fiction/darkness-on-the-edge-of-heyrod/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:56:24 +0100 Down by the electricity substation, a black car drove slowly down the slope before parking in a crunch of moonlit gravel below a towering pylon.
The post Darkness […]

]]> 0 485d93e4a625f6f030afcc2b7dc87f1b Blog: Where Does the Unwritten Exist? from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/arts-and-culture/essays/where-does-the-unwritten-exist/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:55:24 +0100 Negative space is not blank space. Misato Shikata on what fiction leaves unwritten, and how the reader brings it into being.
The post Where Does the Unwritten […]

]]> 0 cc42ec6d6ac13fceb0c377ac4b64217e Matthew Brown replied to the topic I'm reading "How to be a writer" in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/im-reading-how-to-be-a-writer/#post-5365 Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:50:00 +0100 I own a copy of this book. It lives on my desk next to my PC.

]]> dd806947bb537540917f7126514f273d Blog: Thrilling Stories of the Railway, Victor L. Whitechurch from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/Thrilling_Stories_of_the_Railway__Victor_L__Whitechurch.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:04:00 +0100 1912 mystery/adventure anthology, including the stories of Thorpe
Hazell, the Railway Detective.

]]> 0 6fbd79a1777bb887e5a652e854641e62 Jason Latnar replied to the topic I'm reading "How to be a writer" in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/im-reading-how-to-be-a-writer/#post-5364 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:04:44 +0100 Is it any good?

We demand a review. Well we ask nicely – demand is too strong a word.

]]> 24fcdf64ca06c97d8df47d05280a96de Blog: Cellophane from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/arts-and-culture/cellophane-giovanni-fafoglia/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:01:26 +0100 Giovanni Fafoglia’s photographic series Cellophane explores fractured memory through concealed faces, absent bodies and childhood objects.
The post Cellophane […]

]]> 0 e60fa509d78f795d8a9d8515fde6478b Blog: A Fatal Illusion, Anna Lee Huber from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/A_Fatal_Illusion__Anna_Lee_Huber.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2023 historical mystery; eleventh in Huber’s Lady Darby series
(post-Regency amateur detection). The Gages rush to Sebastian’s
father, who was attacked and wounded […]

]]> 0 cc324306af19f63f8852516e1d9259a3 Blog: The End of Rented Reach from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/books/the-end-of-rented-reach/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:44:52 +0100 At the FIPP World Media Congress in Madrid, Eric Akoto examines rented reach, AI licensing and the growing problem of bargaining power for independent […]

]]> 0 fb55f28ee52d9a00da1ca1ede86c46ca Blog: The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-mysterious-affair-at-styles-by.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:08:17 +0100 This was Agatha Christie’s first full length novel and it established many of the tropes of the genre – an Edwardian country house, a dastardly murder, a large c […]

]]> 0 ff11f9cc084af751e803862980ec7c22 Matthew Brown posted an update in the group Help and Support: Oh boy, that's a lot of spam. Clearing it out now. https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/19208/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:55:04 +0100 Oh boy, that’s a lot of spam. Clearing it out now.

]]> 0 c37a976835e34d8e658cd7270a44839f Blog: from Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes https://punning.isbrill.com/dad-jokes/3091/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:21:17 +0100 0 2bcc28e175e53b96a4e66302107952b7 Blog: The Place Called Dagon, Herbert Gorman from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/The_Place_Called_Dagon__Herbert_Gorman.html Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:03:00 +0100 1927 horror. Dr Daniel Dreeme is working a remote valley in New
England, and it becomes increasingly clear that the people are
Strange.

]]> 0 55b44a78b98e35c6554886ca29251ace Blog: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/fiction/thirtieth-anniversary-edition-pete-williams/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:41:12 +0100 A limited vinyl reissue. Two brothers. A teenage son. And thirty years between the record they remember and the lives they ended up living.
The post Thirtieth […]

]]> 0 2f37c2b826f0b6f8add335e1b3847a4b Blog: Miss Silver Intervenes, Patricia Wentworth from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/Miss_Silver_Intervenes__Patricia_Wentworth.html Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:01:00 +0100 1943 mystery/thriller, sixth in the Miss Silver series. Meade
Underwood’s fiancé was thought drowned when their liner was torpedoed,
and now she’s living in a flat […]

]]> 0 a32db63ea1f833c3cb0848860cb8dd4e Blog: Politics from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/flashfriday/politics/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:54:54 +0100 Flash Friday

In Politics, a shared house runs on petty jokes and old habits — until one exchange turns into the question of who gets to stay.

Photo by […]

]]> 0 e56b15bf6ab0e2ac9b662b064af8459f Blog: Who Owns the Future of Publishing? from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/books/who-owns-the-future-of-publishing/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:30:42 +0100 /* Frankfurt 2026 — Where Literature Happens · Frankfurt. Post-local monograph, namespace .lfr-
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]]> 0 97411305b7db0055d3a8cbb59eb857a2 Blog: What Is a Literary Festival Doing in Magaluf? from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/arts-and-culture/what-is-a-literary-festival-doing-in-magaluf/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:35:28 +0100 /* FLEM 2026 — Where Literature Happens · Mallorca. Post-local monograph treatment, namespace .lfm-
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]]> 0 493ef6cf2debaa36fd184635fd1599b6 Blog: The Gone World, Tom Sweterlitsch from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/The_Gone_World__Tom_Sweterlitsch.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:05:00 +0100 2018 SF/horror. Shannon Moss is an investigator in a clandestine
division of the NCIS. In 1997, she looks into the torture and murder
of a SEAL’s family, perhaps by […]

]]> 0 79a96472cf4c6beaef81cf10562b1732 Matthew Brown edited the blog post My book and my site are made without AI in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/technology/ai/my-book-and-my-site-are-made-without-ai/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:22:25 +0100 My book and my site are made without AI When I started The Fictional Dictionary of Bad Language (2014 or thereabouts), AI was for games, and LLMs had yet to be invented. Every part of my book was […]

]]> 6a5a1d07876a6cea313f2cdd3be9bbff Jason Latnar edited the blog post Brandon Sanderson Officially Defends George R.R. Martin’s 15-Year ‘Winds of Winter’ Delay in the group Outside News https://news.authorbuzz.co.uk/bookish-news/author-news/2026/10/05/brandon-sanderson-officially-defends-george-r-r-martins-15-year-winds-of-winter-delay/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:43:00 +0100 Brandon Sanderson Officially Defends George R.R. Martin’s 15-Year ‘Winds of Winter’ Delay Few authors understand the expectations surrounding a gigantic fantasy series better than Brandon Sanderson, but even he isn’t interested in judging […]

]]> 531cf60b8e8a52cd16d7b8904cdffd62 Blog: Saucers and Sorcery, Tansy Rayner Roberts from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/Saucers_and_Sorcery__Tansy_Rayner_Roberts.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2026 fantasy anthology, stories in Roberts’ Teacup Magic setting.

]]> 0 4cee904c59fa31cbf2101f146dd859b6 Blog: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, illustrated by Tove Jansson from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-hobbit.html Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:49:07 +0100 Whilst I’ve read The Lord of the Rings multiple times over the years, I don’t think I’ve sat down and read the Hobbit from cover to cover since I was small. When […]

]]> 0 3793f50ee0b315f26770948d52ac90dd Blog: What Comes After Visibility? from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/arts-and-culture/what-comes-after-visibility/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:50:58 +0100 /* “What Comes After Visibility?” — post-local monograph treatment, namespace .lac- (this article only).
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]]> 0 63ce50e3716577bf849316a89c47c917 Matthew Brown replied to the topic Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins in the forum What are you reading? https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/what-are-you-reading/forum/topic/terry-pratchett-a-life-with-footnotes-by-rob-wilkins/#post-5355 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:47:03 +0100 I am 124 pages in and hooked. STP’s influence on Rob Wilkins is clear. Highly recommend this for Pratchett fans.

]]> db357b2feb2f856d56c8b3516817118c Blog: If Books Could Kill, Kate Eberle from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/If_Books_Could_Kill__Kate_Eberle.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:04:00 +0100 2026 romance and more. Roxie Mitchell is happy working temp jobs to
save up for wild excursions, and reading romance novels with her book
club between times. But […]

]]> 0 ecd47f486ac06a5aaaf0ef0052164497 Matthew Brown edited the blog post I'm checking up on a small bug in the group Help and Support https://dev.authorbuzz.co.uk/2026/09/28/im-checking-up-on-a-small-bug/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:19:18 +0100 I'm checking up on a small bug There appears to be an issue with ActivityPub on some blogs, including Author Buzz HQ. It should not break the site (as far as I can tell), but it […]

]]> 8fa6e0bae267c209b2e6c43135ebeeb1 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) in the group Author Buzz HQ https://authorbuzz.co.uk/2026/09/28/fediverse-book-fair-fedibookfair/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:59:27 +0100 Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) A social media book fair is being organised on the Mastodon (and ActivityPub) social media network. It is free to participate, but you may, if you wish, […]

]]> 9e5f08780c8bc6e28481b1292972965b Blog: Ticks from Litro Magazine in the group Litro https://www.litromagazine.com/editors-pick/ticks-lauren-alonso-miller/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:53:04 +0100 A tick bite. A worried mother. A woman thirty-four weeks pregnant. And a baby who has other plans.
The post Ticks appeared first on Litro Magazine.

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